9 Novr 1811

Evidence (or rather Anti [...?] /Jug. false/

1. Theoretic

Ch. Persuasion

§. Reid & Campbel

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§.3

Since the publication of that work of David Hume another set of philosophers have appeared according to whose belief affirmative persuasion is not an act of the judgement, nor yet the result of a certaindegree of vividness in the idea or image of the supposed matter of fact in question but the result of the operation of a particular sort of sense a sense as much as any of the five senses a sense made for the purpose, and though not one of the five, as true as sense as any of them.

So inadequate will the cause thus assigned be found to be to the effect produced, that unless a slight intimation were given of the necessity by which the demand for this hypothesis was produced, it may be a matter of difficulty to achieve wonder and admiration how it should ever have come into existence.

A certain class of cases had been noted in which the authority of the judgment was found to sit uneasy. A warrant was wanted for bestowing belief upon a class of supposed facts which by the judgment it was apprehended might be were impossible.